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As if sloppy social media users ain’t bad enough … search engines support traffic theft
Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI shorteners (yup, it’s URI, not URL)....
How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control
When you’re familiar with my various rants on the ever morphing rel-nofollow microformat infectious link disease, don’t read further. This post is not polemic, ironic, insulting, or otherwise meant to entertain you. I’m just raving ...
Vaporize yourself before Google burns your linking power
I couldn’t care less about PageRank™ sculpting, because a well thought out link architecture does the job with all search engines, not just Google. That’s where Google is right on the money. They own PageRank™, hence they can ...
@ALL: Give Google your feedback on NOINDEX, but read this pamphlet beforehand!
Matt Cutts asks us How should Google handle NOINDEX? That’s a tough question worth thinking twice before you submit a comment to Matt’s post. Here is Matt’s question, all the background information you need, and my opinion. What is ...
The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks
A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit...
Google removes the #6 penalty/filter/glitch
After the great #6 Penalty SEO Panel Google’s head of the webspam dept. Matt Cutts digged out a misbehaving algo and sent it back to the developers. Two hours ago he stated: When Barry asked me about “position 6″ in late December, ...
Do search engines index references to password protected smut?
Recently Matt Cutts said that Google doesn’t index password protected content. I wasn’t sure whether or not that goes for all search engines. I thought that they might index at least references to protected URLs, like they all do with oth...
No more RSS feeds in Google’s search results
Folks try all sorts of naughty things when by accident a blog’s feed outranks the HTML version of a post. Usually that happened mostly to not that popular blogs, or with very old posts and categorized feeds that contain ancient articles. The pr...
MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog
It seems MSN/LiveSearch has tweaked their rogue bots and continues to spam innocent Web sites just in case they could cloak. I see a rant coming, but first the facts and news. Since August 2007 MSN runs a bogus bot faking a human visitor coming from ...
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
If only this headline would be linkbait … of course it’s not sarcastic. Rumors are out that Microsoft will launch a porn affiliate programm soon. The top secret code name for this project is “pornbucks”, but analysts say that...
Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia
My recent posts on managing affiliate links and nofollow cloaking paid links led to so many reactions from my readers that I thought explaining possible protection levels could make sense. Google’s request to condomize affiliate links is a bit,...
Internet marketing is one big popularity contest, and that’s not a good thing
This is a guest post by Tanner Christensen. What are you doing to make Internet marketing a better industry to be a part of? As it sits now: Internet marketing is one big popularity contest, and that’s not a good thing. Internet marketers are ...
A pragmatic defence against Google’s anti paid links campaign
Google’s recent shot across the bows of a gazillion sites handling paid links, advertising, or internal cross links not compliant to Google’s imagination of a natural link is a call for action. Google’s message is clear: “cond...
